The Monster's Love

10. Enough of this BULLSHIT Riddhima.

"I'M WAITING RIDDHIMA. AND I DON'T WANT YOUR EXCUSES THIS TIME." Vansh was turning red with anger and he didn't even know who it was directed to right now.

He had been feeling a strange change in Mom's behaviour but he knew she loved him like her one child and won't do anything that could hurt him. But as the facts were coming out, it was really spinning Vansh's head. Maybe he really had been naïve of the people around him, all this time.

*FLASHBACK FROM CHP 3."

"We got to know that just before Uma Maa was, well, killed... Her behaviour had become weird and she had started staying out of the house more, with some friends of hers, 2 friends particularly, and one of them is..." Angre said but he didn't continue and wouldn't meet my eyes anymore.

"Who was it Angre?" I asked but even after that he wouldn't look and me and was hesitating to answer and that infuriated me a lot. I needed answers, I needed to punish the person who was responsible for this and get my mother's revenge.

"ANGRE ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW. WHO WAS IT?" I screamed at him and took intimidating steps towards him and he finally looked at me with hurt in his eyes and I knew that I was going to hate this information, because I knew the look in his eyes. He was hurting, and not because of himself but for me.

He was hurting because he knew that his answer was going to hurt me a lot more, it was going to break me possibly. Angre had always been an empath, especially when it came to me. He was my soul brother in a way and it was a relief at times that he was so good at understanding my emotions because I wasn't so good at expressing them.

"Please just tell me Angre. I need to know please. We need to get Uma Maa justice and you know that." I didn't want to sound so vulnerable but I knew he understood. So he took a deep breath and finally said in a whisper.

"Anupriya..."

I stood still. I didn't even know what to feel anymore. I may have stood like there for an hour or a day and I didn't care but Angre tried to talk to me, tried to console me maybe but I couldn't care less.

"Leave me alone Angre." He wasn't ready to do it and I could see it in his eyes. He stood there and looked at me skeptically. I said with more authority in my voice, "Leave me Angre. NOW."

The last word was strong but it still came out in a whisper. Angre wasn't going to argue anymore because he couldn't see Vansh breaking, so he quietly backed out. I just went and sat in my chair and I didn't know when I took the glass on the table and smashed it in my hand. The bleeding didn't bother me anymore because I was so lost in my thoughts.

I couldn't believe everyone around me was this anxious to betray me that they were ready to destroy me to the core. After pretending to love me and care for me for so long, I couldn't believe Mom never told me such crucial information about my Birth mother.

I sat there for a very, very long time and I concluded that she may have just been a friend. It doesn't possibly mean she was involved in Uma Maa's murder or anything and I may as well have just been overreacting about this information because Angre didn't say Mom had anything to do with the murder.

Yes! This must be it! She must have been a good friend of Uma Maa and didn't want to tell us about it because she didn't want to bring back our bad memories of the whole incident. How could I ever doubt Mom. I should really focus on collecting more important information about the murder than overthink about an innocent friendship. Yes.

*End of Flashback*

Riddhima was busy looking down at her shoes, clearly avoiding the question but Vansh wasn't going to let this go very easily. He needed to know what she meant about Mom lying to the family about his death and what exactly where these to do with Kabir at that time.